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6 common shellfish recipes

Learn to eat without going to a restaurant, do it yourself at home

By Aydelott MassarelliPublished 2 years ago 11 min read
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6 common shellfish recipes
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Shellfish seafood is very popular, many stalls have some shellfish dishes, and the menu is full of a variety of shellfish, they are not only delicious, and not expensive, but the practice is also diverse, steamed, fried, mixed, etc., today to share the practice of 6 common shellfish, oysters, small abalone, clams, razor clams, etc., to make the dishes, fresh and appetizing, the practice is also simple, learn, do not have to go out to eat, buyback, you can do at home, save money and eat safely, the next wine and dinner are good. Eat, buyback, you can do at home, save money and eat at ease, wine and rice are good, the following share the practice of.

The ingredients needed: 2 catties of clams, 1 handful of green onions, oil and salt, 1 tablespoon of sesame oil, 5-6 dried chili peppers, 1 tablespoon of cooking wine, 2 tablespoons of seafood soy sauce, and a little sugar. Steps to do.

Small onion with clams

1. Buy clams best buy the business has spit sand clams, buy clams in water, add a little salt, and a few drops of oil, stir well, and place in half an hour so that the clams spit sand clean.

2. Add water to the pot, boil over high heat, add cooking wine, and put in the clams, you have to keep stirring with a spoon, so that the clams are evenly heated, and so the clams all open mouth, you can fish out the clams. After fishing out the clams with water rinse them clean, so that they do not eat toothsomely.

3. Then remove the clam meat inside the shell by hand and put it in a pot for use.

4. small onion remove the old leaves and scallion skin, rinse well, and then cut the small onion diagonal knife section.

5. Dried chili peppers with kitchen shears, cut into segments, chili pepper seeds do not want, the dried chili pepper segments in a heat-resistant bowl, add oil to the pot to heat, drizzle hot oil on the dried chili peppers, the dried chili peppers fried out of fragrance.

6. Put the small onion in the pot with clam meat, pour in the fried chili oil, add sesame oil, salt, sugar, and seafood soy sauce, toss with chopsticks and serve on a plate. A plate of color and aroma of small onion clams mixed with clams is ready.

Steamed oysters with garlic] Ingredients needed: 2 pounds of oysters, 1 head of garlic, red pepper, oil, 1 tablespoon of steamed fish soy sauce, 1\2 teaspoon of white pepper.

Steps to do.

1. buy the oysters with a brush will be oysters on the shell of those moss are to brush clean, in the purchase of oysters should pay attention to choosing a large body fat solid, see whether the oyster shell is closed if the oyster is open, that is certainly not fresh, must buy the kind of closed oysters, and to look carefully is the degree of closure of oysters in the end tight or not, if found slightly open mouth, press the shell of the oyster, if it will close If you find a slightly open mouth, press the oyster shell if it will close, the oyster is still alive if there is no response is dead.

2. Use a knife to open the shell of the oyster, find the location of the knife, find the gap between the inner shell, and then use the knife to pry open, along the opening to scratch a circle, the tendons and flesh to pick off, the oyster is opened, remove the top of the hard shell, retain the shell below, the rest are done in the same way.

3. Here comes the production of fried garlic, remove the outer skin of the garlic, the garlic cloves are first cut into slices, and then cut into minced, do not shoot garlic and then cut so that the fried garlic is spicier.

Spicy Fried Razor Clams

4. Pour the right amount of oil into the pot and heat it to 30%, then put in 2/3 of the garlic, stir-fry the garlic on low heat until it is lightly browned, when you stir-fry it, you must stir-fry it slowly on low heat, don't be in a hurry, some people are afraid of trouble and just turn on the high heat to stir-fry it, so the stir-fried garlic does not give out its fragrance completely and it is easy to stir-fry it, so when we stir-fry the garlic, we must stir-fry it slowly on low heat. This way, the aroma of the garlic can be fully stir-fried.

Turn off the heat and add the remaining 1/3 of the minced garlic, then add white pepper, and chicken essence (if you don't like chicken essence, you don't have to put it) and mix well, so that the garlic is ready, the taste of raw garlic and garlic oil blend together, so that the garlic taste better, pepper can add fragrance to the dish to remove the fishy, this is fried garlic delicious tips.

6. Place the oysters on the compartment of the steamer, put some garlic on each oyster, and steam for 7-8 minutes on high heat, increase or decrease the steaming time according to the size of the oysters

When the time is up, take out the oysters and place them on a plate, put a few drops of soy sauce on each oyster, the oysters themselves have a salty taste, so put less soy sauce on them, and sprinkle some chopped red pepper on them, add some oil to the pot, heat it up until it smokes, drizzle a little hot oil on each oyster, then the steamed oysters with garlic are ready.

Steamed abalone with garlic and vermicelli] Ingredients needed: 10 abalones, 1 handful of vermicelli, oil and salt to taste, 1 small onion, 1 head of garlic, 2 tablespoons of steamed fish and soy sauce

Steps to do.

1. Put the fans into the water in advance and soak them until they become soft. Do not use hot water to soak, the fans are easy to break. Garlic chopped, small onion chopped onion.

2. Prepare a clean brush, or a toothbrush is also acceptable. Brush the abalone carefully to clean the black sticky substance on the surface and around the abalone, and brush away the black substance on the abalone meat. Brush the shell as well. The bought abalone will have black mucous film on it, which needs to be cleaned.

3. Then, insert a spoon along the gap between the shell and the abalone meat, scoop up the abalone meat, and remove the abalone meat.

4. Remove the black intestines and belly of the abalone and the sandy mouth of the abalone, wash the abalone and drain the water.

5. Cut the abalone meat into cross-shaped knives, so that it will be easier to cook and taste, just cut 2/3 of the depth, do not cut through.

6. Tie the soaked vermicelli into bundles and make 10 portions. Put the tied vermicelli in the abalone shells and put the abalone on top, one by one, and put them on the plate.

7. Heat oil in a pot, add half of the minced garlic, stir-fry over low heat, stir-fry the garlic to get garlic aroma and light yellow color, add the other half of the minced garlic, stir-fry evenly, and turn off the heat. Spoon out the fried garlic and pour it on top of the arranged abalone. Add water to the steamer and bring to a boil. Place the plate with abalone, cover with a lid, and steam for 7-8 minutes after the water boils. When the time is up, remove the plate.

8. Drizzle the abalone with a little bit of steamed soy sauce and sprinkle with chopped green onion. Add oil to the pot and heat it, drizzle a little bit of hot oil on the abalone respectively and choke out the fragrance. A dish of abalone with garlic flavor is ready.

【spicy fried razor clams】Materials needed: 800g of small people's fairy, 2 sprigs of cilantro, oil, and salt to taste, 3 cloves of garlic, 10 dried chili peppers, 1 tablespoon of oyster sauce, 1 tablespoon of cooking wine, 1 tablespoon of soy sauce, 1 teaspoon of sugar, water starch to taste

Steps to do.

1. Add a little salt and a little oil to the water, and put the little people's fairy into the water for 2 hours, then wash it with running water.

2. Garlic chopped, cilantro cut inch section, dried chili peppers cut in small sections, chili seeds do not.

3. pot with water to boil, blanching into the little man cactus, blanching until the shells of the little man cactus are open, the little man cactus out, put in water cast clean, fish out the water to drain for use.

4. Heat the oil in the pot, put in the minced garlic, and stir-fry over low heat, stir-fry the garlic over low heat to get the garlic aroma.

5. Stir-fry into the dried chili peppers, do not stir-fry the dried chili peppers, dried chili peppers' fried paste has a bitter taste.

6. Stir-fry the blanched centaury for 1-2 minutes over high heat.

7. Drizzle in soy sauce and oyster sauce, then add salt, sugar, and cooking wine, and stir-fry over high heat evenly.

8. Drizzle in a small amount of water starch thickening, stir-fry over high heat until the soup is wrapped in the small human fairy, sprinkle with cilantro, stir-fry evenly, over the fire, and serve on a plate.

Ingredients needed: 500g razor clams, 3 eggs, oil and salt, 2 small onions, 2 slices of ginger, 1 teaspoon of white pepper, and 1 tablespoon of cooking wine.

Steps to do.

1. Wash the razor clams, put them in water, add salt and a few drops of oil (the water should be a little salty so that the razor clams can easily spit out the sediment), and soak for 2 to 3 hours.

2. Knock the eggs into a bowl, stirring evenly with chopsticks, and cut the small onion into scallions.

3. Add water to the pot, then add ginger and cooking wine, boil the water and blanch the razor clams, stir the razor clams from time to time with a spatula, so that the razor clams are evenly heated, and cook over high heat until the shells of razor clams open, and fish out the razor clams.

4. Strip the razor clam meat, the razor clam meat edge of the black coat to peel off do not, and then the body mud out, cast wash again, fish out the water drained.

5. Add oil to the pot and heat, drizzle into the egg mixture, spread out, heat until the egg mixture is slightly solidified, and stir-fry the eggs into a block, the egg block to be used.

6. Add a little more oil to the pot, add the razor clams, add white pepper, and stir-fry for a few seconds over high heat. Add the scrambled eggs, then add the chopped green onion and a little salt, stir-fry evenly over high heat, turn off the heat, and serve on a plate.

【Steamed razor clams with garlic vermicelli】Required ingredients: 2 catties of small people's fairy, 2 heads of garlic, 2-3 small rice chili, oil and salt to taste, 2 tablespoons of steamed soy sauce, 1 tablespoon of oyster sauce, 1 teaspoon of chicken seasoning, 1 tablespoon of cooking wine, 1 teaspoon of white pepper, a little sugar

Steps to do.

1. Wash the vermicelli, put them in water, add salt and a few drops of oil (the water should be a little salty so that they can easily spit out the sediment), and soak for 2 to 3 hours.

2. Put the fans into cold water and soak them until they become soft. Do not use hot and warm water to soak them, otherwise, they will be easily broken when steamed.

3. Chop the garlic into mince, the size should be more even. Chop the green onion and cut the chili pepper circle.

4. The following to stir-fry garlic sauce, add salad oil to the pot and heat, turn off the heat, add 2/3 of the garlic, stir-fry on low heat, stir-fry the garlic on low heat until light yellow, add the rest of the garlic, stir-fry the garlic flavor on low heat, turn off the heat, add oyster sauce, white pepper, chicken essence, sugar, mix well so that the garlic sauce is fried.

5. Add water to the pot and bring it to a boil, pour in the cleaned little people's fairy, stir it from time to time with a spatula so that the little people's fairy is evenly heated, and cook it on high heat until the little people's fairy shell opens, fish out the little people's fairy, take advantage of the heat to peel the shell, peel out the meat of the little people's fairy, peel off the black coat adhering to the edge of the outer membrane, and then squeeze out the mud from the body, cast and wash it once, fish it out and drain the water. After this treatment, the little people will not eat grittily.

6. Drain the water from the soaked vermicelli, put it into a large bowl, add 1 tablespoon of garlic oil and mix it well, this is a small skill for steaming vermicelli, so that the vermicelli will not stick together after steaming, and the roots will be clear.

7. Evenly arrange the vermicelli on top of the vermicelli. Pour the garlic sauce evenly over the vermicelli.

8. Add water to the steamer and bring it to a boil. Place the plate in the steamer drawer, cover with a lid, and steam for 3-4 minutes on high heat. When the time is up, remove the plate, put onion and chili, turn around and drizzle into the steamed fish and soy sauce, add oil to the pot and heat it until it smokes, drizzle the hot oil over the onion and chili, a plate of colorful and fragrant garlic vermicelli little people fairy is ready.

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Aydelott Massarelli

I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.

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